Sight and Sound

FEATURES NO COUNTRY FOR YOUNG GIRLS : It's the western's turn to get the Coens treatment, but their makeover of the John Wayne Oscar-winner True Grit is free of their usual self-consciousness, says Graham Fuller = 16 GRACE IN THE HOLE : Never one to repeat himself, Danny Boyle follows his exuberant Slumdog Millionaire with the bare-bones one-man show of 127 Hours. He talks to James Mottram = 20 SLIM & THE SILVER FOX The years Howard Hawks spent with his second wife Nancy - aka Slim - were the richest of his career, as her style inspired him to live out a recurring dream of their relationship on film, By David Thomson = 24 PLUS Michael Mann on why he loves Howard Hawks, and in particular the 1932 gangster classic Scarface = 28 DISNEY AFTER DISNEY : As Disney's 50th animated feature Tangled is released, Andrew Osmond examines how the studio whose name was once synonymous with animation lost its edge = 30 DANCER IN THE DARK : COVER FEATURE : Darren Aronofsky has followed The Wrestler with Black Swan, this time finding his trademark obsession, restlessness and bone-crunching self-harm in the formal world of ballet. Nick James talks to the director PLUS six classic female doppelgangers on film = 32 GLASGOW BELONGS TO ME : Peter Mullan is already well known as one of Britain's most intense screen actors. But with Neds he cements his reputation as a director whose commitment to emotional truth transcends social realism. By Demetrios Matheou = 38 REGULARS EDITORIAL : Making the call = 5 RUSHES Mar Diestro-Dopido meets Portuguese Nun director Eugene Green = 8 Maria Delgado talks to Diego Luna about his directing debut Abel = 9 Charles Gant on how arthouse cinema fared at the box office in 2010 = 9 Jim O'Rourke sings the praises of Alan Arkin's Little Murders = 11 Rob Young welcomes the resurrection of COI public-information films = 12 Nick Roddick on the UK's 'special relationship' with Hollywood = 15 LETTERS : What makes a classic, Orson Welles, ancestors of The American = 96 READER OFFERS = 22 REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : The Portuguese Nun = 44 FILMS Abel = 46 Amer = 46 Bathory = 47 Biutiful = 48 Black Swan = 49 Blue Valentine = 50 Brighton Rock = 51 Burlesque = 51 The Chronicles of Narnia The Voyage of the Dawn Treader = 52 Conviction = 53 Cuckoo (credits only) = 81 Freakonomics = 54 Gasland = 55 Genius Within The Inner Life of Glenn Gould = 55 Get Low = 56 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows PartⅠ = 57 Hereafter = 58 How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster = 60 I Spit on Your Grave = 61 Jackass 3D (credits only) = 82 The King's Speech = 62 Life Goes On = 63 London Boulevard = 64 Love & Other Drugs (credits only) = 82 Men on the Bridge／Koprudekiler／Igne Deligi = 66 Midgets vs Mascots = 66 Morning Glory = 67 Neds = 68 Nenette = 69 The Next Three Days = 69 127 Hours = 70 The Portuguese Nun／A religiosa portuguesa／Le Religieuse portugaise = 71 Rabbit Hole = 71 Road to Las Vegas = 72 The Scar Crow = 74 A Serbian Film／Srpski Film = 74 Tangled = 75 The Tourist = 76 Travellers = 77 Tron Legacy = 78 True Grit = 80 The Warrior's Way = 80 The Way Back = 81 DVDs A Bay of Blood = 85 La cienaga = 85 A Dance to the Music of Time = 90 Deep Red = 85 Ellery Queen = 90 Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor & Other Fantastic Films by Koji Yamamura = 85 Hammer & Tongs = 85 I Am a Camera = 86 The Quintessential Guy Maddin = 86 Man Hunt = 87 Middletown = 88 Pinter's Progress & The Homecoming = 89 Shed Your Tears and Walk Away = 89 La signora di tutti = 89 Films by Jacques Tati = 89 DVD FEATURES Graham Fuller gets his teeth into a 15-film Elia Kazan box-set = 84 Tom Charity sees The Night of the Hunter get the DVD release it deserves = 87 Tim Lucas revisits del Toro's Cronos in the light of a fascinating new director's commentary = 88 BOOKS Philip Kemp welcomes two contrasting studies of Satyajit Ray = 92 Nick Bradshaw enjoys a populist survey of animated features = 92 Jonathan Romney is stimulated by a new collection of criticism by Jonathan Rosenbaum = 93 Ginette Vincendeau wants more from The Faber Book of French Cinema = 93

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